I'm not even gonna bother explaining my mental illnesses to my next therapist, I'm just gonna hand them a copy of Chainsaw Man and be done with it
shout out yet again to my incredibly long stress dreams post that I typed out to like 7000 words and immediately after posting it started reading otherside picnic's manga adaptation and realized that I could have just showed you that instead
Well, I say that, but I'm glad things turned out this way, because for the people who actually dare to read the entire thing and have familiarity with Otherside Picnic going in, it's probably very funny. Yes, there's a punchline about it at the end, mostly to pair it with my essay about yuri appreciation from a week or two before, as they're commenting on contemporaenous events, but I didn't think it would be so prescient, so connected in themes.
But it was heavy on semiotics ("umberto eco shit" as I described it) and at least influenced by yuri manga, so of course in retrospect it was going to come off like it was channeling Miyazawa, I guess, even if most of what I knew him for was funny-sounding interviews.
I'm sorry I keep harping about this but I kinda need to work all of this out in a place where people can see it so I feel just a little less completely crazy. Which is to say, oh buddy, I get it
